Ethnic differences in prisoners 1: Criminality and psychiatric morbidity

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 181, Issue DEC., 2002, Pages 473-480

  Coid, Jeremy ^a   Petruckevitch, Ann ^a   Bebbington, Paul ^b   Brugha, Traolach ^c   Bhugra, Dinesh ^d   Jenkins, Rachel ^d   Farrell, Mike ^e   Lewis, Glyn ^f   Singleton, Nicola ^g  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e South L/M NHS T Addic Rsrc Ctr   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRISON; PRISONER;

EID: 0036899012     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.181.6.473     Document Type: Article

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